sysvbanner(1)

sysvbanner1

Print large banner

Part of banner(1).

Usage

banner text [text []]

Overview

banner prints out the first 10 characters of text in large letters.

Multiple text are output on multiple large lines.

Limitations

The character set which can be used in text is limited to ASCII and other characters will be rendered as whitespace.

Releases

4 releases since Debian 10 (Buster); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 10–11
  2. 12–13

Authors

The original author of this implementation is Brian Wallis, with further improvements by David Frey, which also packaged it for Debian.

The manual page was updated an rewritten in POD format by Ricardo Mones.

From sysvbanner 1:1.0-18 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.